398 TEMIDR, 
20. ANADIA. 
Anadia, Gray, Cat, Liz. p. 74. 
Euspondylus, part., Peters, Abh. Berl, Ac. 1862, p. 206. 
Xestosaurus, Peters, 1. c. p. 216. 
Chalcidolepis, Cope, Journ, Ac. Philad. (2) viii. 1876, p. 116. 
Tongue moderately elongate, arrow-headed. Lateral teeth com- 
pressed, tricuspid. Head with large regular shields; frontonasal 
separating the nasals; prefrontals and frontoparietals present ; 
nostril pierced in the middle of a single nasal, or in the suture 
between two nasals. Eyelids developed, lower with a more or less 
transparent disk composed of several scales. Ear exposed. Limbs 
well developed, pentadactyle. Scales all smooth, forming unin- 
terrupted annuli round the body; dorsals juxtaposed or slightly 
imbricate, subhexagonal, forming transverse and oblique series ; 
ventrals little larger than dorsals, quadrangular, forming regular 
longitudinal and transverse series. A collar fold. Tail cylindrical. 
Males with femoral pores, females without. 
Costa Rica to Ecuador. 
Synopsis of the Species. 
I. Supraoculars four ; body and tail very long, limbs feeble. 
30 scales round the middle of the body, 
and 58 from occiput to sacrum inclusively ; 
anterior supraocular smallest .......... 1. ocellata, p. 398. 
33 scales round the middle of the body and 
48 from occiput to sacrum ; posterior supra- 
ocular smallest ........ 0. eee ee ee eee 2. rhombifera, p. 899. 
23 scales round the middle of the body, and 
43 from occiput to sacrum ...........- 3. metallica, p. 400. 
II. Two supraoculars ......--...-.05- 4. bogotensis, p. 400. 
1. Anadia ocellata. 
Anadia ocellata, Gray, Cat. p. 74. 
Anadia ocellata, Gray, Proc, Zool. Soc. 1851, pl. vi. fig. 1. 
Ecpleopus? (Euspondylus) ocellatus, Peters, doh. Berl. Ac. 1862, 
2 
p. 21 
Head depressed, snout pointed; body much elongate. Nostril in 
the suture between two nasals. Frontonasal pentagonal; a pair 
of prefrontals forming a long suture; frontal pentagonal, narrow 
posteriorly ; a pair of large anterior and a pair of large posterior 
parietals; a large parietal ; several small occipitals, the smallest 
central; four supraoculars, first smallest, second largest, third sepa- 
rated from supraciliaries by a small supplementary shield; a loreal, 
a frenoorbital, and a row of infraorbitals; temples with rather 
large shields; seven or eight upper and six lower labials; chin- 
shields one anterior and four pairs, the first two and the third an- 
teriorly forming a suture; gular scales subequal, squarish, juxta- 
